Another SVASE VC Breakfast Club session is coming up on Thursday, March 23rd in San Jose. It’s an informal round-table where up to 10 entrepreneurs get to deliver a pitch, then answer questions and get critiqued by a VC Partner. We’ve had VC’s from Draper Fisher, Hummer Winblad, Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Mohr Davidow, Emergence Capital …etc.
Thursday’s featured VC is John Stockton, Venture Partner, Mayfield Fund. The Zvents post has all the info and a map, but please remember to click through to register either from zvents or directly here.
These sessions are an incredible opportunity for Entrepreneurs, most of whom would probably have a hard time getting through the door to a VC Partners. Since I’ve been through quite a few of these sessions, both as Entrepreneur and Moderator, let me share a few thoughts:
- It’s a pressure-free environment, with no Powerpoint presentations, Business Plans…etc, just casual conversation, but it does not mean you should come unprepared!
- Bring an Executive Summary, some VC’s like it, others don’t.
- Follow a structure, don’t just talk freely about what you would like to do, or even worse, spend all your time describing the problem, without addressing what your solution is.
- Don’t forget “small things” like the Team, Product, Market..etc.
- It would not hurt to mention how much you are looking for, and how you would use the funds…
- Write down and practice your pitch, be ready to deliver a compelling story in 5 minutes. You will have more time, but believe me, whatever your practice time was, when you are on the spot, you will likely take twice as long to deliver your story.
- Last, but not least, please be on time! I am not kidding… some of you know why I have to even bring this up.
Tags: Venture Capital, VC Breakfast, Funding, VC Funding, Startups, Entrepreneurship, SVASE
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Google Kalender CL2…
Schon lange wurde darüber geschrieben und es gingen auch einige Bilder durchs Netz – jetzt tauchen erneut Bilder des bald erwarteten Google Kalender CL2 im Netz auf. Michael Arrington schreibt in seinem Blog das er nun neue Bilder hat….
Le Google Calendar arrive……
Vu sur TechCrunch,
le calendrier google pointe le bout de son nez….
Pingback by Luca Mondini » Blog Archive » — March 8, 2006 @ 1:30 am
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Más pantallazos de Google Calendar…
Podéis encontrarlos en un post de Techcrunch: Exclusive Screenshots: Google Calendar….
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Imagenes exclusivas del nuevo google calendar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…
Primeras imagenes oficiales del proximo lanzamiento de google…
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Anlise do Google Calendar…
Ainda no abriu mas esta revista j fez a anlise. Parece interessante….
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Imágenes de Google Calendar ¿o CL2?…
Primeras imágenes de lo que será el Google Calendar, aunque al parecer el nombre oficial será CL2. Las tienen en …
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Google Calender…
Ya estan empezando a aparecer algunos datos adicionales y screenshots del Google Calender.
Tiene la misma interfaz que Gmail, y la simpleza de todas las aplicaciones de Google.
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